Elizabeth Bowen.
New York: Twayne Publishers, (1971), First Edition. octavo, cloth. 134pp. Twayne Publishers, More
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Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Victorian Scholar Adventurer.
Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, (1983), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 302pp. Pilgrim Books, With his immense energy, Furnivall was a central force behind the English literary scene in the nineteenth century, particularly in its scholarly branches, founding many literary societies, contributing to the beginnings of the... More
A Bright Remembrance. The Diaries of Julia Cartwright 1851-1924. Edited by Angela Emanuel.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1989), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. xii, 322pp. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Cartwright was a Victorian writer and art historian whose works are primarily concerned with the Italian Renaissance. Five of her books are histories of women of the Renaissance and her friendships included the... More
Home Before Dark. A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 243pp. Houghton Mifflin, Illustrated. A very fine copy in a very fine jacket which is not price clipped. More
Firebrand. The Life of Horace Liveright.
New York: Random House, (1995), First Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. (xviii), (398). Random House, From the jacket: "Liveright was a man of puzzling contradictions - a self- professed socialist and a high-living Wall Street gambler, a deeply caring father and a compulsive philanderer. It was Liveright... More
Cyril Connolly. The Life and Times of England's Most Controversial Literary Critic.
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1996), First American Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. St. Martin's Press, "Revered for his intellect, feared for his acerbic wit..." Author of Enemies of Promise and The Unquiet Grave, and, perhaps most importantly, founding editor of "Horizon" literary magazine. A man of... More
Robbie Ross. Oscar Wilde's devoted friend.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., (2000), First Edition. octavo, brown cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (x), 278pp. Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., Ross was a writer, critic, art dealer, and administrator, and a pivotal figure on the London literary and artistic scene from the mid-1890s to his premature... More
E. M. Forster. A Life.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978), First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xxvi), (360)p. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, A very fine copy in a very fine, flawless dust jacket. More
George Gordon, Lord Byron.
(London): The British Library, (2000), First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 128pp. The British Library, An introduction to the life and work of Byron and an examination of his poetry in the context of his short, eventful life. His position as toast of society was eclipsed by public disgrace and he... More
The Art of Dora Carrington.
(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1995), quarto, wrappers. 144pp. Thames and Hudson, First Wrappers Edition. Foreword by Michael Holroyd. A discussion of the entire range of Carrington's art: portraits, still lifes, landscapes, glass paintings, and decorative work. With 150 illustrations, 30 in color. Very fine. More
Charles Dickens.
(New York): Oxford University Press, (2004), First American Edition. quarto, pictorial boards. 128pp. Oxford University Press, One in the series of The British Library Writers' Lives. A revealing portrait of Charles Dickens from his early childhood, through his years as a parliamentary journalist and legal clerk, his magazine Household Words... More
The Bodley Head 1887-1987.
London: The Bodley Head, (1987), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. (vii), (366)pp. The Bodley Head, Illustrated with title pages and frontispieces from various publications by the firm, and with photographs. Founded by John Lane in the nineties, and publishing the notable figures of that time, The Bodley Head... More
Samuel Johnson. The Struggle.
New York: Basic Books, (2008), Second printing. octavo, blue boards in dust jacket. (xvi), 528 pp. Basic Books, Illustrated. A very fine copy in a very fine jacket. More
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1972), Reprint. octavo, wrappers. 128 pp. Thames and Hudson, A richly illustrated biographical work. More
Bosie. A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas.
(London): Hodder & Stoughton, (2000), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. x, 374 pp. Hodder & Stoughton, "Only yesterday I was being lectured (by a Frenchman) and told that unless I 'did something' I would go down to posterity as an appendage of the Wilde affair! It is true... More
Elkin Mathews. Publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound.
Madison: Univ of Wisconsin Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. (xiv), (300)pp. Univ of Wisconsin Press, Mathews' career in publishing "coincided with the transition from Victorian to modern literature, a period which literary historians date from about 1880 to 1920...what makes Mathews unique is the role he played in encouraging... More
Volume II of the Diaries & Letters of Harold Nicolson. The War Years. 1939-1945.
New York: Atheneum, 1967, Book Club printing. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 511 pp. Atheneum, Fine in a fine jacket. More
Friends of Promise. Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989), First American Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. (xiv), 254pp. Harper & Row, Illustrated. Founding editor of "Horizon", Connolly presided over one of the most successful small magazines in British publishing history. Its success after WWII caused so much work that he... More
The Life of Graham Greene. Volume Three: 1955-1991.
(New York): Viking, (2004), First Edition. quarto, black cloth and red boards in pictorial dust jacket. (xxxiv), 906pp. Viking, This edition marks the centenary of one of the 20th centuries most important literary figures. Bringing to a close the life of Greene the author follows him, still an agent for... More
Boswell's Presumptuous Task.
New York: Farar, Straus, & Giroux, (2001), First American Edition. octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. xxii, 351pp. Farar, Straus, & Giroux, A study of the friendship between Samuel Johnson and Boswell, Boswell's struggle to finish his great biography, and his relationships with family, friends and competitors. Very fine... More
Roger Fry. Art and Life.
(Norfolk, England): Black Dog Books, (1999), Second edition. octavo, wrappers. xii, 292pp. Black Dog Books, This is an essential work for anyone interested in Bloomsbury. It fills many of the gaps in Virginia Woolf's biography of Roger Fry and weaves together the story of his life with an illuminating account... More
Henry Bradshaw 1831-1886.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1984, First Edition. octavo, cloth. (vi), 272pp. Scarecrow Press, Along with a checklist of Bradshaw's writings, this book reprints excerpts from his writings concerning books, libraries and important bibliographical discoveries. Bradshaw made significant contributions to our knowledge of early writings. Index. More
Michael Sadleir 1888-1957.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1980, First Edition. octavo, cloth. 154pp. Scarecrow Press, Containing a biographical introduction, excerpts from the works and a checklist of the writings of Sadleir. The fifth volume in The Great Bibliographers Series. Cloth scuffed, contents clean. More
A. J. A. Symons: His Life and Speculations.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986, small octavo, wrappers. (viii), (293)p. Oxford University Press, First Printing of this Edition for which Julian Symons has provded an Afterword in which he considers what A.J. might have done had he survived after the war. A most entertaining biography of this founder of the... More